Uh, oh.For the moment, lets ignore the question of "enhanced interrogation techniques" and take a look at several aspects of this which are not good. First of all, the destruction of those tapes, it would seem to me, would weaken any efforts to prosecute those detained. Next, given that many of the folks captured speak a dialect/language that are fairly obscure, I'd think that you'd want to keep those tapes for a long period of time, just to make sure that your language experts can review them and confirm that what the prisoner is saying has been translated accurately. Third, you'd want to have those tapes around as reference/bargaining chip material when dealing with people who'd been mentioned in those tapes. If terrorist suspect "A" names individual "B" as being part of a terrorist cell, and some time later you capture "B," who denies that he has anything to do with terrorism, you can then whip out the video of "A" spilling the beans.The Central intelligence Agency (CIA) has destroyed 92 tapes of interviews conducted with terror suspects, a US government lawyer has admitted.
The agency had previously said that it had destroyed only two tapes.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has launched a lawsuit against the CIA to seek details of the interrogations of terror suspects.
There are, of course, more issues related to this, and I'll let the folks here hash them out as they see fit.